English WitsLeonard Russell Hutchinson, 1953 - 349 pages |
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... father and his father's faith . John Labouchere must have been shocked by his boy's precocious pranks at Eton and horrified by his doings at Cambridge , where his gambling debts amounted to about £ 6,000 . One morning , when Henry was ...
... father and his father's faith . John Labouchere must have been shocked by his boy's precocious pranks at Eton and horrified by his doings at Cambridge , where his gambling debts amounted to about £ 6,000 . One morning , when Henry was ...
Page 332
... father , a man who was at least as good an original for Dickens's Harold Skimpole as was Leigh Hunt : - " Some men want legs of beef and mutton for breakfast ; I don't . Give me my peach , my cup of coffee , and my claret ; I am content ...
... father , a man who was at least as good an original for Dickens's Harold Skimpole as was Leigh Hunt : - " Some men want legs of beef and mutton for breakfast ; I don't . Give me my peach , my cup of coffee , and my claret ; I am content ...
Page 347
... father : " To Dr. Mitford , New Slaughter's Coffee House . " August 8 , 1811 . " Mamma says the great art of letter - writing is to construct an epistle without one possible subject . And truly , if such be the fact , no two MARY ...
... father : " To Dr. Mitford , New Slaughter's Coffee House . " August 8 , 1811 . " Mamma says the great art of letter - writing is to construct an epistle without one possible subject . And truly , if such be the fact , no two MARY ...
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